Distribution and Ecology

Central E. Borneo (G. Beratus, near Balikpapan), Central Celebes (Latimodjong Mts) and throughout New Guinea. "Locally common, particularly in disturbed forests, or in poorly drained areas where it may form nearly pure stands, in boggy grasslands and reed-swamps, on sandy clay, once on a rocky riverbank, once on a limestone hillock in mossy forest (Mt Beratus), 860-3420 m, but mostly c. 1500-2000 m" (de Laubenfels 1988).